An episode of the Electric Sheep Magazine podcast - Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Selavy talks to Russian scholar Sergei Kapterev about Soviet science fiction and Alex Fitch talks to Polish poster designer Andrzej Klimowski and Wojciech Orlinski about cinematic adaptations of the work of Stanislaw Lem.
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Press release: "Electric Sheep Magazine editor Virginie Selavy talks to Russian scholar Sergei Kapterev (Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow) about Soviet science fiction and the connection between SF cinema and politics, the impact of the space race and the Cold War period, and Roger Corman’s re-edits of popular Soviet SF films. (Originally broadcast 15/07/11 on Resonance FM)
Plus, in a Q & A recorded at Sci-Fi London, April, 2010, Alex Fitch talks to Polish poster designer Andrzej Klimowski and SF writer / journalist Wojciech Orlinski about cinematic adaptations of the work of Stanislaw Lem from Steven Soderbergh and Andrei Tarkovsky's adaptations of Solaris to more offbeat films such as Edward Zebrowski's The Hospital of Transfiguration."